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Jodi Kantor, author of THE OBAMAS, gives great advice to journalists on Quora!
Author David Sedaris shares social observations from his book tour.
In case you missed it, here’s a link to David Sedaris’ appearance on The Daily Show last night. (But you didn’t miss it, did you?)
What’s your all-time favorite beach read?
“Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris”
It’s the perfect page-turner because…
“It’s a great, light read that has a hilarious satire tone.”
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Out this week in paperback, Kevin Powers’ debut novel of the Iraq War, “The Yellow Birds,” was one of the most celebrated books of 2012: It won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Guardian First Book Award, was a finalist for the National Book Award and was among the New York Times’ 10 Best Books of the year. Before the critical raves started pouring in, we got Powers to tell us about the books that have
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“She had a brainy girl’s discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach (F, 20s, no jacket, yellow scarf tied in hair, halfway done with book, G train) http://bit.ly/ZzqqGl
Nelson Mandela is the man! #BELIEVE
— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) May 9, 2013
Gotta agree with the Biebs here.
Taking the library by storm! @nypl #wbn2013
Woo Hoo!
Bossypants at the NYPL! So awesome.
Where’d You Go, Peep? This peep is decked out as Bernadette Fox, the star of Where’d You Go Bernadette? by Maria Semple. In true Bernadette fashion, this diorama was constructed with materials found no further than twenty miles from the office.
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The Last Book I Loved: ‘The Unnamed’
The Last Book I Loved is an ongoing series with The Rumpus to highlight emerging Tumblr writers (and the books they love). Want to have your essay considered? Submit it here.
When you go to the website for Joshua Ferris’s 2010 novel, The Unnamed, your screen fills with static for a second. Then it resolves into a grainy gray video of the main hall of Grand Central Terminal, like security camera footage, commuters walking to and from their trains. And then fuzzy blue circles appear over a handful of heads. When you click on one, the video pauses, and a small text bubble comes up. One says, “I look around, I wonder if I’m just sick.” Another quotes a poem by Percy Shelley. “Art thou pale for weariness / Of climbing heaven and gazing on earth/Wandering companionless / Among the stars that have a different birth.” They feel like a little of what each person has inside them, a bit of story or sorrow they keep inside themselves.
This is what Joshua Ferris’s work is — a song of this secret world. He writes about the isolation of modern life, our disconnect from the world at large and from the people around us. And he writes of the small, beautiful hopes of connection — through love, through hope, through body-breaking exertions.
A great, perceptive essay about The Unnamed.
I think I’m officially getting too obscure in my literary/movie references. But I amused myself, and that’s all that matters.
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Gilda Radner reads.
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Good day today…first, free Tina Fey book courtesy of World Book Night 2013, then, Chipotle for lunch @voreilly_ #chipotle...
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“What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures,” by Malcolm Gladwell
“She was like a comic book villain: by looking at me calmly she’d obliterated any trace of my intelligence or charm or wit—really, any trace of my...
Self explanatory.
